wired.com Archives - 02 August 2015, Sunday

The signs are all there that something is amiss with the calm in the wake of Westgroup’s failed acquisition of Mutiny. After Skylar Astin—playing the smarmy backstabber his face suggests he was born to play—swoops to replace Joe (Lee Pace) at Westgroup, the oil company’s goals become ...

“One of the two original engines from the Riva can still be seen in the Ferruccio Lamborghini Museum in Italy, but unfortunately wasn’t available for sale for this project,” says Sandro Zani, the head of Dutch Riva. “That is why we bought two other V12 engines, one of which in the US,...

Ever since Reddit abruptly fired Victoria Taylor, the company’s popular director of talent, the community has been in revolt . Hundreds of popular subreddits were effectively shut down in protest, and thousands of redditors flocked to Voat , a Swiss-based Reddit clone that emphasizes ...

Ever since Reddit abruptly fired Victoria Taylor, the company’s popular director of talent, the community has been in revolt . Hundreds of popular subreddits were effectively shut down in protest, and thousands of redditors flocked to Voat , a Swiss-based Reddit clone that emphasizes ...

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For bitcoin fans, the notion of a “brain wallet” has long seemed like the ideal method of storing your cryptocurrency: By simply remembering a complex passphrase, the trick allows anyone to essentially hold millions of dollars worth of digital cash in their brain alone, with no need t...

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Enigma’s homomorphic technique works by mimicking a few of the features of bitcoin’s decentralized network architecture: It encrypts data by splitting it up into pieces and randomly distributing indecipherable chunks of it to hundreds of computers in the Enigma network known as “nodes...

Enigma’s homomorphic technique works by mimicking a few of the features of bitcoin’s decentralized network architecture: It encrypts data by splitting it up into pieces and randomly distributing indecipherable chunks of it to hundreds of computers in the Enigma network known as “nodes...

Patrick Byrne, CEO and chairman of Overstock.com. Joe Pugliese/WIRED Overstock.com is preparing to offer a $25 million private bond using the blockchain, the distributed online ledger that underpins the bitcoin digital currency. Earlier this week, the online retailer circulated a docu...

Patrick Byrne, CEO and chairman of Overstock.com. Joe Pugliese/WIRED Overstock.com is preparing to offer a $25 million private bond using technology that mimics the blockchain, the distributed online ledger that underpins the bitcoin digital currency. Earlier this week, the online ret...

Patrick Byrne, CEO and chairman of Overstock.com. Joe Pugliese/WIRED Overstock.com is preparing to offer a $25 million private bond using technology that mimics the blockchain, the distributed online ledger that underpins the bitcoin digital currency. Earlier this week, the online ret...

The National Security Agency knows Edward Snowden disclosed many of its innermost secrets when he revealed how aggressive its surveillance tactics are. What it doesn’t know is just how much information the whistleblower took with him when he left. For all of its ability to track our t...

The National Security Agency knows Edward Snowden disclosed many of its innermost secrets when he revealed how aggressive its surveillance tactics are. What it doesn’t know is just how much information the whistleblower took with him when he left. For all of its ability to track our t...

When Nike honcho Phil Knight commissions his swoosh-stripe Mount Rushmore somewhere in the wilds of the Pacific Northwest, the Air Max 95 will be one of the shoes that will be carved into the Precambrian granite outcropping. The Air Max 95 isn’t the best Nike runner ever made, it’s ar...

Overstock.com has purchased a 25-percent stake in government-regulated trading company PRO Securities, advancing its plan to offer a “digital security”—company stock overseen by the type of technology that underpins the bitcoin digital currency . Based in New Jersey, PRO Securities is...

Overstock.com has purchased a 25-percent stake in government-regulated trading company PRO Securities, advancing its plan to offer a “digital security”—company stock overseen by the type of technology that underpins the bitcoin digital currency . Based in New Jersey, PRO Securities is...

When Nike honcho Phil Knight commissions his swoosh-stripe Mount Rushmore somewhere in the wilds of the Pacific Northwest, the Air Max 95 will be one of the shoes that will be carved into the Precambrian granite outcropping. The Air Max 95 isn’t the best Nike runner ever made, it’s ar...

When Nike honcho Phil Knight commissions his swoosh-stripe Mount Rushmore somewhere in the wilds of the Pacific Northwest, the Air Max 95 will be one of the shoes that will be carved into the Precambrian granite outcropping. The Air Max 95 isn’t the best Nike runner ever made, it’s ar...

James Angel compares bitcoin to MySpace, the social network that paved the way for far more influential services like Facebook and Twitter. Today’s bitcoin digital currency , says Angel, a professor of finance at Georgetown University , is too flawed to replace existing currencies. Bu...

Ben Lawsky, New York’s superintendent of financial services, trumpeted the news with a tweet. “Big day. New York issues first charter to a virtual currency company,” the tweet read, just above an image of the charter, complete with Lawsky’s signature and an official New York seal. Law...

Ben Lawsky, New York’s superintendent of financial services, trumpeted the news with a tweet. “Big day. New York issues first charter to a virtual currency company,” the tweet read, just above an image of the charter, complete with Lawsky’s signature and an official New York seal. Law...

Jeremy Allaire wants everyone to use bitcoin. Allaire is the co-founder and CEO of Circle , a digital currency startup that also touts a bitcoin wallet, which the company released last September. While bitcoin has grown in popularity in recent years, it’s still widely seen as money fo...

Jeremy Allaire wants everyone to use bitcoin. Allaire is the co-founder and CEO of Circle , a digital currency startup that also touts a bitcoin wallet, which the company released last September. While bitcoin has grown in popularity in recent years, it’s still widely seen as money fo...

Patrick Byrne, CEO and chairman of Overstock.com. Joe Pugliese/WIRED Overstock.com is one step closer to offering a new kind of stock intended to remake the stock market in much the same way the bitcoin digital currency remade our money system. On Friday, the Salt Lake City-based onli...

Patrick Byrne, CEO and chairman of Overstock.com. Joe Pugliese/WIRED Overstock.com is one step closer to offering a new kind of stock intended to remake the stock market in much the same way the bitcoin digital currency remade our money system. On Friday, the Salt Lake City-based onli...

In the 18 months since the Silk Road online black market for narcotics was taken down by a swarm of three-letter agencies, a site known as Evolution has taken its place at the top of the dark web drug trade. Now Evolution, too, has suddenly dropped off the face of the internet. But un...

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The recent Net neutrality victory at the FCC is not a silver bullet. We can expect costly court challenges, complicated enforcement, and the risks that come with entrusting a large government bureaucracy to manage a technological problem. More competition would be a better solution—an...

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The recent Net neutrality victory at the FCC is not a silver bullet. We can expect costly court challenges, complicated enforcement, and the risks that come with entrusting a large government bureaucracy to manage a technological problem. More competition would be a better solution—an...

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Stripe, the intriguing startup that helps drive payments on everything from Facebook to Lyft, is now handling bitcoin. The company made the long-awaited announcement with the launch of a microsite this week. Basically, any business using Stripe can immediately sign up to accept the bi...

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Stripe, the intriguing startup that helps drive payments on everything from Facebook to Lyft, is now handling bitcoin. The company made the long-awaited announcement with the launch of a microsite this week. Basically, any business using Stripe can immediately sign up to accept the bi...

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Stripe, the intriguing startup that helps drive payments on everything from Facebook to Lyft, is now handling bitcoin. The company made the long-awaited announcement with the launch of a microsite this week. Basically, any business using stripe can immediately sign up to accept the bi...